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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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1. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.






2. A poem that tells a story.






3. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.






4. The conversation of characters in a literary work.






5. Words spoken by one character in a play - either directly to the audience or to another character - that the other characters supposedly do not hear.






6. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.






7. A character who contrsts and parallels the main character in a play or story.






8. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.






9. The main character of a literary work.






10. A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme - line length - and metrical pattern.






11. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.






12. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.






13. A story passed down over the generations that was once believed to be true.






14. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.






15. A word that closely resembles the sound that the word is supposed to make.






16. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.






17. A customary feature of a literary work - such as the use of a chorus in Greek tragedy - the inclusion of an explicit moral in a fable - or the use of a particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle.






18. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.






19. The voice an actor takes on to tell the story in a particular work.






20. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.






21. A brief witty poem - often satirical.






22. Refers to how a piece of literature is written rather than to what is actually said.






23. The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language - character - and action - and cast in the form of a generalization.






24. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.






25. The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose.






26. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.






27. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as 'like' or 'as'.






28. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.






29. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.






30. A figure of speech in which two opposing ideas are combined.






31. The group of readers to whom a piece of literature is directed.






32. An interruption of a work's chronology to describe or present an incident that occurred prior to the main time frame of a work's action.






33. The way people speak in various parts of the country or around the world.






34. The narrator is outside of the story and is all-knowing or 'God-like' because he/she knows everything that occurs and everything that each character thinks and feels.






35. The selection of words in a literary work.






36. A six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem.






37. The difference between what a chracter says and what he/she means.






38. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.






39. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.






40. A figure of speech in which two completely unlike things are compared.






41. The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.






42. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.






43. Spectific characteristics are applied to an entire group of people and are used to 'classify' those people as part of a 'group'.






44. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.






45. The reason the author has written a piece of literature.

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46. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.






47. What a story or play is about.






48. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.






49. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.






50. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a seperate stanza in a poem.







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